While Trump detailed all the silver he’s purportedly given to vets groups, but his track record with the military is anything but sterling.

Donald Trump may have detailed all the silver he's purportedly given to veterans groups, but his track record with the military, and with certain decorated military veterans, is anything but sterling...

Trump used his college years — he studied at Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania — to obtain four separate deferments (in July 1964, January 1966, December 1966 and January 1968) so he could avoid serving in the Vietnam War.

After his college graduation, in 1968, Trump, an apparently able-bodied man and former military school cadet, was able to sidestep the Vietnam War draft again with a medical disqualification for bone spurs in his foot.

Donald Trump called a news conference Tuesday to address accusations that he overstated the amount of money he pledged to donate to veterans groups. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

In July, he insulted the service of war hero Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who spent more than five years being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and suffered permanent injuries as a result. "He's not a war hero because he was captured," Trump said at an Iowa rally of McCain, a Navy pilot who had been shot down in 1967. "I like people who weren't captured,” Trump added.

Trump has also said he opposes the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, which subsidizes the college expenses for veterans who have served three years on active duty since 9/11.